Helicity in ropes of chiral nanotubes: Calculations and observation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Teich, David ^a   Seifert, Gotthard ^a   Iijima, Sumio ^b   Tománek, David ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRESS; CHIRAL NANOTUBE; DEFECT-FREE; DRIVING FORCES; ENERGY GAIN; HELICITIES; NANOTUBE BUNDLES; NANOTUBE ROPES; TOTAL ENERGY CALCULATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ROPE;

BENDING (FORMING);

EID: 84861897529     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.235501     Document Type: Article

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